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For decades, abortion opponents swore that they had created a single-issue movement and had no interest in changing access to birth control. It was never that simple, and the past few weeks have only made that clearer. Conservative opposition to contraception is a staple of right-wing social media , from anti-abortion groups to MAHA influencers. And in the second Trump administration, the arguments against birth control are changing: Regulators are being asked to revisit birth control at least partly (and explicitly) to benefit men .

That’s the new argument promoted by the Heritage Foundation , the group that led Project 2025 . Heritage has been in the n

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